Kekekeke zerg rush!

Blizzard just unveiled an hour ago that their next game will be Starcraft 2, an RTS that looks surprisingly similar to the original Starcraft, but shinier. And with more zerglings. More about the announcement can be found here. I can't wait - I love RTSs, and have been sad that there haven't been any new good ones in a long time.

HOLY

Check out the giant protoss walker things - those are my favourite so far =D

Looks similar to SC1...

So maybe I'll be able to run it on my PC!!

That's if I don't have to upgrade for bioshock though...bah.

Sweet, been waiting for this!

And I might see a problem regarding about the graphics, with a lot of zergs and well, explosions, debris, flying all over... You'd probably need a hell good of a video card to survive that.

The nukes look awesome. I wish there was more Zerg in the battle besides the Zerglings at the end though.

All I know is that the person watching the demo being played says there was zero slowdown, even with 100+ zergs on the screen.

More zerglings can never be bad.
My PC can take on NWN2, Supreme Commander, Tiberium wars, Oblivion all at max stats. Bring it.

Already heard about this (about 18 minutes before shorlen posted here) on another forum...

Anywho I'm so happy about this game. I've been waiting for it for years, they leaked that they were going to do a SC2, that it was 'in progress' before SC ghost... before WoW... before WC3 even >_< around the time D2's expansion came out 5-6 years ago. >_<

Still, Star Craft is old school, and I hope they made SC2 at least as good as the game they're basing it off of. Which had about the best Rock-Paper-Scissors unit strength/weakness system in any game I’ve played. Well.. I'm just hoping it's an RTS and not like WC3 was: "zomg mash your keypad quickly and win" >_>

...WC3 was -not- mash your keypad quickly and win. What ladder rating were you? *peer*

Looks good so far.



Pretty much.

My graphics card eats oblivion for breakfast.

Anyways...

Looks fun

OMGOMGOMG!

Protoss. The new units look absolutely awesome! Now if that giant building thing was the new Protoss Nexus (it looked like it... sorta), WTF it flies?! And they kept the billboards! And what does a Phase Prism do? OMG, I want this game out nao!

Pretty sure that was a mothership.

I love the way that the motherships are immune to missiles when they activate that one special ability of theirs - the missiles just slow down and stop, and when the shield is turned off, they fall to the ground =D The game sounds like it's going to have a very interesting physics engine.

O_o I don’t know how you can say that if you ever watched Korean tourney games for SC and BW, and played WC3. WC3 was diametrically opposite from SC as far as 'strategy' and micromanagement go. I liked its storyline, but its MP was lacking, a lot.

I think the change from Dragoons to Immortals is cool. And the new micro abilities seem awesome.

Immortals seem like they have shields to prevent artillery, but that melee units can pass through. And Zealots now have a precog dodging ability, and even blink attack. Aaand the new Dark Templar dragoon things, which have short-range teleport that can take them up elevations.

Oh, and the Phase Prism is a transport/mobile Pylon. Its meant to be used with the Warp Gate, which lets you build troops ANYWHERE in the range that a Pylon can power something. So you can essentially fly one ship over and build your army on the spot.

So far, it looks like they're definitely taking it up a notch in the right direction. Aaaand, the Mac/PC versions are going to be released simultaneously.

Woow I love how in some of the maps you can actually see planets in the background! Hmm, I need to go out and finally get myself a copy of Brood Wars

Holy Crap